Puzzle #5 - origami/tangram symbols, page 4

reply to post by Deaf Alien

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DA, are you working on something like this? Extrapolating letters from a pattern? Based on the bottom patterns?







[edit on 11-8-2008 by Kellter]

reply to post by Kellter

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Right, right. That's what Im working on. I have a table on paper I drew but Im having problem figuring out some patterns.

BTW, how did you do that?

[edit on 11-8-2008 by Deaf Alien]

reply to post by Deaf Alien

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MS Paint Lol. I kind of see a pattern, I'm working on it but my 3 year old is climbing all over me wanting me to put "Little Bill" on my laptop.

reply to post by Kellter

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First attempt

Not sure about the last 3 patterns.

You get the idea.

reply to post by Deaf Alien

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IT WILL BE OBSERVED THAT THE CYCLE OF TRIANGLES BUILDS WORDS AND SYMBOLS ARE DIAGONALLY TRUE.

so true

but than..

where does that leave us?


i mean how is diagonally true actually be relevant?
how can we attribute this to puzzle solving?

[edit on 11-8-2008 by ragster]

reply to post by ragster

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Let S be a set. A cycle is a permutation (bijective function of a set onto itself) such that there exist distinct elements a_1, a_2, ... ,a_k of S such that

f(a_1) = a_2
f(a_2) = a_3
...
f(a_k) = a_1

From wiki.

LOL. I was looking up to see an exact meaning of the cycle as applied to this problem.

reply to post by Deaf Alien

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so could the counter clockwise, or clockwise cycle of these triangle per symbol host something other than simple letters we attribute to the already recognized symbols?

reply to post by ragster

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If you leave the 9th triangle off, that leaves 8 per character. The white and black could be ones and zeros, forming 2 hex characters (oneon top of the other) that map to ASCII characters?

The ninth triangle might be the starting point for each series of ones and zeros.

I think I'm kind of insane, but that's what I'm looking into.

Just looked at an ASCII table and see that the hex numbers I'm coming up with are way too big to represent letters. Never mind.

[edit on 11-8-2008 by Benevolent Heretic]

reply to post by Deaf Alien

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Hey DA, how did you get the pattern for the letters after D? Or are you just guessing after that point?

Oh, and has anybody checked the green values yet for the triangles? Har har, I kid I kid.

reply to post by Wintermute

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It's like the IQ test You are shown first few things and you will know what is next. Like 2, 4, 8, __

Observe the pattern on those two sets of 3 symbols on the bottom and you'll see what I'm talking about.

reply to post by Kellter

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You think that last 3 symbols on the bottom are equal to X,Y and Z?

reply to post by Deaf Alien

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Ah, got it, thanks.

I don't know if this is relevant, but as I was drawing this out, it reminded me of this "game" or trick I saw once... I can't remember exactly how it went, but it's basically along the lines of "can you draw this shape with only 5 lines without picking the pencil up and without going over the same line again," and to solve it you have to draw a series of diagonals that go all the way across, and you end up bringing the lines up past the bounds of the shape.

I think I'm rambling, but I'm hoping somebody here understands what the hell I'm talking about. And what my point was is that the 9th little triangle in the corner there reminds me of this game, because if you're drawing diagonal lines, you need that extra bit there to complete it. Ahh, I know this doesn't make much sense, but let me go see if I can find an online version of this puzzle I'm talking about.

[edit on 11-8-2008 by Wintermute]

[edit on 11-8-2008 by Wintermute]

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